Funny Quotes by Charles Dickens

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

— Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens

— Charles Dickens

We must scrunch or be scrunched.

— Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

— Charles Dickens

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

— Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

— Charles Dickens

Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.

— Charles Dickens

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

— Charles Dickens

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article

— Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

— Charles Dickens

Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

— Charles Dickens

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

— Charles Dickens

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

— Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

— Charles Dickens

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

— Charles Dickens

Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to…

— Charles Dickens

“I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or…

— Charles Dickens

... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay,…

— Charles Dickens

It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young…

— Charles Dickens

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders,…

— Charles Dickens

For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings…

— Charles Dickens

In particular, there was a butler in a blue coat and bright buttons, who gave quite a winey flavour to the table…

— Charles Dickens

... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

— Charles Dickens

A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself…

— Charles Dickens

“I can't go into a long explanation before company; but I couldn't help it, upon my honour." Upon your what?" growled Sikes,…

— Charles Dickens

The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance,…

— Charles Dickens

... Waiter! raw beef-steak for the gentleman's eye,-nothing like raw beef-steak for a bruise, sir; cold lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient-damned…

— Charles Dickens

Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew…

— Charles Dickens

“I only hope, for the sake of the rising male sex generally, that you may be found in as vulnerable and soft-hearted…

— Charles Dickens

Mr. Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement…

— Charles Dickens

He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and…

— Charles Dickens

Next," said Mrs Wilfer with a wave of her gloves, expressive of abdication under protest from the culinary throne, "I would recommend…

— Charles Dickens

Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence…

— Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss…

— Charles Dickens

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their…

— Charles Dickens

Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself…

— Charles Dickens

Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for…

— Charles Dickens

Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm…

— Charles Dickens

I go so far as to say, miss, morehover," proceeded Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to hold forth as from…

— Charles Dickens

The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of…

— Charles Dickens